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Woman killed after falling tree lands on top of vehicle

Police found a couple trapped in a vehicle on Saturday in Andover, Massachusetts

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Updated: 12:51 AM CST Mar 5, 2017

Woman killed after falling tree lands on top of vehicle

Police found a couple trapped in a vehicle on Saturday in Andover, Massachusetts

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Updated: 12:51 AM CST Mar 5, 2017

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WEBVTT NEWSCENTER 5'S KATIE THOMPSONREPORTS ALONG ROUTE 125 WHERE ITHAPPENED.KATIE SHE WAS A 58-YEAR-OLD: WOMAN FROM THE READING AREAWHO DIED.HER HUSBAND WAS DRIVING AND HEIS IN THE HOSPITAL WITHLIFE-THREATENING INJURIES.ART MCDERMOTT SAID HE WASSTANDING WITH HIS KITCHEN WITHHIS TEENAGE SON WHEN HE HEARD ALOUD BANG AND RAN OUTSIDE.>> I COULDN'T BELIEVE THE SIZEOF IT AND THEN I SAW THE CAR >>.IT WAS DEMOLISHED.KATIE: I 100 FOOT-- A 100 FOOTPINE TREE ALONG ROUTE 125 ON TOPOF A TOYOTA CAMRY WITH TWOPEOPLE INSIDE.>> SOMEONE WAS TRYING TO GETTHEM OUT AND I DIDN'T REALIZEWHAT HAPPENED UNTIL AFTER.>> IT LANDED RIGHT ON TOP OF THEVEHICLE.BOTH PARTIES WERE TRAPPED.THEY WERE TAKEN TO LAWRENCEGENERAL.KATIE: A HUSBAND AND WIFE INSIDETHE VEHICLE.BOTH TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL,WHERE THE WIFE WAS PRONOUNCEDDEAD.POLICE UNSURE OF HOW ITHAPPENED.THE TREE APPEARS TO BE ROTTEDFROM THE INSIDE OUT.>> I SAW THE INSIDES OF THE TREEAND UNFORTUNATELY THERE ARE ALOT OF THOSE AROUND HERE WHERETHE INSIDE WAS PRETTY MUCHROTTED.KATIE: POLICE ARE INVESTIGATINGHOW EXACTLY IT MAY HAVEHAPPENED.MCDERMOTT SAYS HE AND HIS SONCAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHATCOULD'VE HAPPENED IF THE TREEHAD FALLEN THE OTHER WAY.>> THE ODDS OF THAT MOMENT ANDTHAT TIME WITH THAT HAPPENINGWAS INCREDIBLE AND IF HAD GONETHE OTHER WAY IT'S OUR HOUSEWHERE HE WAS IN THAT ROOM.KATIE: MCDERMOTT SAYS THIS ISN'TTHE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENEDHERE.

Woman killed after falling tree lands on top of vehicle

Police found a couple trapped in a vehicle on Saturday in Andover, Massachusetts

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Updated: 12:51 AM CST Mar 5, 2017

ANDOVER, Mass. —

A woman is dead after a tree fell on a vehicle in Andover Saturday.

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Troopers on Saturday afternoon found a Toyota Camry on Route 125 that had been hit by a fallen tree. The driver, a 58-year-old man, and a passenger, a 58-year-old woman, were trapped inside the vehicle.

The pair, both from Reading, were taken to Lawrence General Hospital. The man suffered serious, life-threatening injuries while the woman was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The crash remains under investigation. No word on what caused the tree to fall at this time.